Scotland and Wales cope with a multi party system (Labour, Lib Dems, SNP/Plaid, Tories and, until it imploded the SSP in Scotland) ulster is also more complex.
We also have a bastardised Proportional system in the Scottish Parliament)
I'm typing this on a machine that I won at a Microsoft Vista launch event.
It came with Vista Ultimate edition.
After 8 months of using it, yesterday I swapped the hard drive and put a legit copy of XP Pro on it. Even although I knew I'd have the hassle of finding drivers as I was never given a driver disk for it, and the PCI Express slot still needs its drivers.
Why? Vista was no real gain, and I hated how the OS kept stopping me doing stuff because it wished to notify me of something. The month previously I had turned off UAC as it was preventing my security software from doing its thing.
As soon as I can I'll be dualbooting this thing, probably trying out Wubi.
I won a Dell LAtitude 820 in a raffle at a Microsoft event.
It was an XP laptop at the event, but Microsoft loaded it up with Vista ultimate and Office Ultimate
But it didn't work with my Wireless router.
I lapped in Ubuntu as a live disk, and set up the wireless with my security key and lo and behold it worked straight away.
If a laptop supplied by Dell as a prize, and configured with Vista by Microsoft doesn't work with the wireless chip on a low to mid-end business laptop straight away, but a live Linux distro does, which OS have the problem?
Not just for "Attack of the Clones" but for him refusing to release a version of the original films the way they were originally screened in the cinemas.
They may be his films but they are my childhood and nostalgia, being what it is, I want to watch the originals now and again
Given Mr Pratchetts dismissive comments about Tolkien a few years back one wonders how he feels about the use of Howard Shore's LoTR soundtrack on the trailer
This is the thing that stops me reinstalling Linux on a duakl boot. my broadband hardware is a PCI card for which there is no Linux support. If I reinstall Linux (the partition's there it's the boot loader that's screwed but I will upgrade the distro anyway) then I'll also need to buy a modem for which there is Windows AND Linux support
Tolkien admitted one big problem in Lord of the Rings. He couldn't find a way to work the whole Aragorn/Arwen love story into the main narrative, so it is left as an appendix.
But he always said that the love story was an integral part of the whole story.
That scenes allows the love story to become part of the narrative and also allows the desperation of the defenders of Helm's Deep to become part of the story by introducing antiicpation rather than a guard knocking on Theoden's Door saying "Scuse me guv, 10,000 Uruk-Hai to see you, should I show them in?"
Don't think she's anything special. Unlike the bumf I got from a Czechoslovakian (before they split, though Split is admittedly in former Yugoslavia) PC company a few years ago which not only showed a voluptuous young lady in a tight dress mopping the brow of the engineer who was ensuring that the machines they supplied were top quality but it illustrated the speed options of its CD drives by having a line of young ladies in bikini botoms and T-shirts with the relative speeds written on the T-shirts. The higher the speed the more generously endowed the lady and, of course, the T-shirts were wet.
Very gratuitous, very mystifying as to why they sent them to us in the first place
It is. The Silmarillion was not intended, by JRR Tolkien, as a book in an of itself. However the Silmarillion, and lots and lots of his other working notes, stories etc have been published after his death after editing by his son Christopher.
Some of the things in the film do not take place within th emain body of the three books. The Arwen/Aragorn romance is in an appendix to the third book but Tolkien says the only reason it was left out of the main text was that he couldn't figure out how to interweave it in. With films and intercutting Mr. Jackson has managed that.
Similarly the wounding of Theodred (part of TTT) is included in the story of the Rohirrim in battle with Saruman's forces at the Fords of Isen in the collection, IIRC, "Unfinished Tales".
Slashdot Mirror
That use of the term "UK" really means "England"
Scotland and Wales cope with a multi party system (Labour, Lib Dems, SNP/Plaid, Tories and, until it imploded the SSP in Scotland) ulster is also more complex.
We also have a bastardised Proportional system in the Scottish Parliament)
Google your DVD player, find out how to unlock it and order the Region 1 from the US
I'm typing this on a machine that I won at a Microsoft Vista launch event.
It came with Vista Ultimate edition.
After 8 months of using it, yesterday I swapped the hard drive and put a legit copy of XP Pro on it. Even although I knew I'd have the hassle of finding drivers as I was never given a driver disk for it, and the PCI Express slot still needs its drivers.
Why? Vista was no real gain, and I hated how the OS kept stopping me doing stuff because it wished to notify me of something. The month previously I had turned off UAC as it was preventing my security software from doing its thing.
As soon as I can I'll be dualbooting this thing, probably trying out Wubi.
I'll stay clear of Vista for some time to come
Well I for one saw Firefly in the UK and it seemed popular enough.
I think I ended up buying 4 copies of the DVDs to distribute and I even orddered Serenity from the US to get it early
Why should we believe thenm when its something that is more popular than any Sky show, and they can't buy it
If only I had some kind of plug-in for Firefox that would let me block ads, even those on Slashdot
....
Wiat a minute
I have a Dell laptop I got in a raffle from Dell and MS
as delivered by them it didn;t connect to my wireless router
Ubuntu worked straight away, no hassle
Got Vista to work after I downloader the wireless driver
I am amazingly happy with my PSP
I play games at home and on the train
I watch films also when commuting
I can use it to check for WiFi hotspots, hit the web a few times and even check email
oh and play a bit of music and bore people with family photos
I won a Dell LAtitude 820 in a raffle at a Microsoft event.
It was an XP laptop at the event, but Microsoft loaded it up with Vista ultimate and Office Ultimate
But it didn't work with my Wireless router.
I lapped in Ubuntu as a live disk, and set up the wireless with my security key and lo and behold it worked straight away.
If a laptop supplied by Dell as a prize, and configured with Vista by Microsoft doesn't work with the wireless chip on a low to mid-end business laptop straight away, but a live Linux distro does, which OS have the problem?
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that in order to run the kit and transform the rubbish into a form that actually powers the generaor, they require x energy.
From the consumption of the next stage they get x + 90% energy, , otherwise it's a load of keech.
Cos he's a Scot
Yup me.
Not just for "Attack of the Clones" but for him refusing to release a version of the original films the way they were originally screened in the cinemas.
They may be his films but they are my childhood and nostalgia, being what it is, I want to watch the originals now and again
I use the modifed rules. The extra game you got with the RoTK expansion, the assault on Minas Turuth was fun too mind
The games you named are good, as is Puerto Rico, Metro and the new War of the Ring.
Though the game taking up my time isn't a board game but Games Workshop's Lord of the Rings game, Evil Empire though they may be it's actually fun
Life is too short to play SFB. That and ASL. FASA's Star Trek Games was better. You didn't need a four foot stack of books to play it
Given Mr Pratchetts dismissive comments about Tolkien a few years back one wonders how he feels about the use of Howard Shore's LoTR soundtrack on the trailer
Most Bills ain't read in the UK Parliament. They trust, Rightkly or wrongly, the Committee process to craft a reasonable bill.
The same is probably true in the US,
I imagine Cuba might like to see Guantanamo removed, but might just be a tad frightened to say so
To the interactive verion when I was a Unix bod.
Can't you do that in Linux? Not foolproof but gives you an extra beat to think
My email account with demon dates back to 1996 and is of that form
This is the thing that stops me reinstalling Linux on a duakl boot. my broadband hardware is a PCI card for which there is no Linux support. If I reinstall Linux (the partition's there it's the boot loader that's screwed but I will upgrade the distro anyway) then I'll also need to buy a modem for which there is Windows AND Linux support
Tolkien admitted one big problem in Lord of the Rings. He couldn't find a way to work the whole Aragorn/Arwen love story into the main narrative, so it is left as an appendix.
But he always said that the love story was an integral part of the whole story.
That scenes allows the love story to become part of the narrative and also allows the desperation of the defenders of Helm's Deep to become part of the story by introducing antiicpation rather than a guard knocking on Theoden's Door saying "Scuse me guv, 10,000 Uruk-Hai to see you, should I show them in?"
Don't think she's anything special. Unlike the bumf I got from a Czechoslovakian (before they split, though Split is admittedly in former Yugoslavia) PC company a few years ago which not only showed a voluptuous young lady in a tight dress mopping the brow of the engineer who was ensuring that the machines they supplied were top quality but it illustrated the speed options of its CD drives by having a line of young ladies in bikini botoms and T-shirts with the relative speeds written on the T-shirts. The higher the speed the more generously endowed the lady and, of course, the T-shirts were wet.
Very gratuitous, very mystifying as to why they sent them to us in the first place
ed
It is. The Silmarillion was not intended, by JRR Tolkien, as a book in an of itself. However the Silmarillion, and lots and lots of his other working notes, stories etc have been published after his death after editing by his son Christopher.
Some of the things in the film do not take place within th emain body of the three books. The Arwen/Aragorn romance is in an appendix to the third book but Tolkien says the only reason it was left out of the main text was that he couldn't figure out how to interweave it in. With films and intercutting Mr. Jackson has managed that.
Similarly the wounding of Theodred (part of TTT) is included in the story of the Rohirrim in battle with Saruman's forces at the Fords of Isen in the collection, IIRC, "Unfinished Tales".
ed
Did I out myself as a Tolkien geek?
Aye, but a fair few o us would consider wursels European if it wiz pairt o a package that got us awa frae thae London nyaffs.